Mercury, a potent neurotoxin that is damaging to the developing
nervous systems of fetuses and children, but can have severe effects on
adults, has been found to be present in every single fish tested from
291 freshwater streams across the United States. The study conducted by
the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows just how widespread mercury
pollution has become in the air, watersheds and fish in freshwater
streams.

To read the full article please search online for 100 of Fish in U.S. Streams Found Contaminated
with Mercury

The consequences for our recklessness are evident in all of God's
Creation. We are indiscriminately polluting the Earth that the
generations to come will inherit. It is time to really ponder what kind
of legacy we are leaving behind.

Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network,
shares his reason for being a vegetarian although he loves the taste of
meat: his 11 year-old. Tidwell is very concerned about climate change
and the consequences it might bring for the future generations; and
therefore, animal agriculture's immense contribution to global warming
has made him adopt a plant-base diet. To read the full article please
search online for The Low-Carbon Diet

Kudos for Mike Tidwell for doing the right thing for God’s Creation
in spite of his great desire for meat! Global warming, animal suffering,
diseases… many are the reasons for adopting a vegetarian diet that help
us to actively participate in the reconciliation of God’s Creation.

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who,
though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a
thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he
humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.

What a poignant reminder that we ought to be humble like Jesus! As
humans, we are fast to forget how dominion and power need to be dealt
with humility and love. Only then we can follow God.

Journalist David Kirby, author of "Animal Factory", explains in this
interview the health and environmental problems of factory farms, from
untreated animal waste to polluted waterways. To read the full interview
please search online for The problem with
factory farms

Factory farms are destroying God's creation, from our health, to
God's animals and to the environment. If these factory farms had no
support from the consumer, they would die off. It is imperative that
people recognize the transcendence of transitioning to a plant-base
diet.

This riveting video about "our pale blue dot", planet Earth, is
narrated by Carl Sagan. The last pictures of Earth taken by Voyager 1
are depicted in this video, which invariably exposes the fragility and
uniqueness of the planet Earth. Carl Sagan said, "It has been said that
astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is
perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this
distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our
responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and
cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."